Adrian Welch

Adrian Welch was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland and attended school in Scotland from 1975 to 1989. He completed his Architecture degree in 1992, attending Manchester University. After a year-out working as an architectural assistant in Manchester Adrian attended The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, from 1993 where he did a Diploma in Architecture. He gained Distinction for his Dissertation on social housing in Hulme, Manchester. He has worked for architects such as Eva Jiricna CBE, Sir Terence Conran, Richard Murphy OBE, RMJM, Sutherland Hussey, Pace and GAJ – in London, Hong Kong, Manchester, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Kuwait, Dubai and Saudi Arabia.

Penthouse Neilreichgasse Vienna Building

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Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna, has the highest amount of buildings from the “Gründerzeit” period. Nowhere in the city is the grid street plan as clear as in this district, an urban development which has been greatly expanded at around 1900.

Ambiguity, Vulnerability & Risk in a Home

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Storage House Tokyo - Ambiguity, Vulnerability & Risk in a Home

Ambiguity, Vulnerability and Risk in a Home: Vertigo as Subtext – article for e-architect by Douglas Klahr – if Alfred Hitchcock were alive and filming “Vertigo” today, Ryuji Fujimura’s Storage House would play a role in the film

Sanya Block 5 Hainan Province building

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Sanya Block 5 Hainan Province building

Block 5 is part of a resort development. The project consists of 8 blocks of 6 stories on top of a ground floor with restaurants, bars and retail. The blocks are placed on a public deck, a new ground level that covers the basement with parking spaces and service.

Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design

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Campanile - Berkeley Undergraduate Prize

The international BERKELEY PRIZE competition encourages undergraduate architecture students worldwide to go into their communities for the purpose of thinking and writing about issues central to the understanding of the social art of architecture.

Crystal Towers Riyadh – KAFD Development

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Crystal Towers Riyadh KAFD Development

Within a new financial district in Saudi Arabia’s capital city, the Crystal Towers are located in a unique location between the Financial Plaza – the financial centre of the masterplan – and the Wadi – a verdant pedestrian thoroughfare.

Storage House Tokyo: Japanese Residence

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Storage House Tokyo

Storage House Tokyo : Kanagawa Residence, contemporary Japanese residential building design by Ryuji Fujimura Architects, Japan: the ‘house like a store’ is located in a residential area on the suburbs of Tokyo.

Martin House Complex: Frank Lloyd Wright Buffalo

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Martin House Complex by Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo

For a period of some 22 years – from 1927 to 1949 – a critical mass of Wright-designed structures stood in and around Buffalo. This concentration of Wrightian buildings was the second largest in the nation, after that of the Chicago area.

M&M Rosie Setagaya House, Tokyo

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House in Setagaya - M&M Rosie

When the client found this land, we were asked to give an advice. It was a strip of pentagonal land facing west with only a pair of parallel boundary lines. Because of this land condition, it was valued lower, almost 30% larger than regular priced lands for the same cost.